L'Enseignement de l'Interprétation Consécutive: Une Etude de Cas Turc-Français

Tez Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Université de La Sorbonne Nouvelle: Paris III, Ecole Doctorale Langage et Langues, Traductologie, Fransa

Tez Danışmanı: Prof.Dr. Daniel Gile

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2013

Tezin Dili: Fransızca

Özet:

Abstract

This research aims to describe, analyze and understand problems that students encounter while learning consecutive interpreting in Turkish and French as a working language pair, and students' progress in coping with the problems. It focuses on the question whether it is possible to teach the basic principles and techniques of consecutive interpreting to undergraduate students who do not necessarily master their foreign working language well enough to be admitted to a high level interpreter training program.

The corpus consists of transcriptions of the students' consecutive interpreting performances, notes taken in consecutive interpreting class and retrospective interviews with students. The analysis seeks to trace back the origin of the students’ observed weaknesses within the framework of Gile's Effort Models.

Findings show clear progress in the students' consecutive interpreting performance over the two semesters under consideration. It is also observed that students' progress is mainly found in elements which are described as part of the know-how of a professional interpreter in the literature on interpreting. The findings also show that students have learned basic principles and techniques of consecutive interpreting, although they are not enrolled in a Master's program or in a program specialized in interpreting. They therefore suggest a positive answer to the research question.

The linguistic specificity of the language pair involved and the methodological benefits of the triangular approach implemented in the study are discussed, and potential avenues for future research are suggested.

Keywords : Teaching, Conference Interpreting, Consecutive interpreting, Learning, Effort Models, Linguistic specificity, Process oriented approach